Studio Install Exhibitoin

Project Art Works, 12 Clarmont

Studio Install is one in a series of exhibitions in the gallery at 12 Claremont, Hastings, that recreate aspects of the Project Art Works studios, artists and practice. Studio Install: Luke Bebb, features the environment where artists Luke Bebb and Oliver Crowther regularly work together in co-creative exchange. Throughout the exhibition period, there will be moments when the artists are present and making. At other times, traces of Luke and Oliver's ongoing work will remain in the space, offering visitors a glimpse into their co-creative processes. The installation reveals aspects of supportive studio practice and how the agency generated through intuitive, often nonverbal collaborative exploration can positively impact lives lived beyond the studio. Through the empathetic and non-hierarchical exchange in this working environment, audiences will encounter paintings, soundscapes and the kind of environments that make equity in artistic practice possible, highlighting the importance of supportive and responsive approaches in contemporary art making. Oliver Crowther reflects on their longstanding collaboration: "Over the 7 or so years Luke and I have been working together we seem to have developed a considerate language of perseverance through the making of marks and erasures. Perhaps the success of any endeavour, collaborative or otherwise, ultimately depends on the generative energy found between forces in opposition. Luke keeps his cards pretty close to his chest on such things. What does seem clear to both of us is that neither of us could make these paintings on our own."